Ethel Barrymore to star in Whiteoaks Iowa tour
Ethel Barrymore leads a coast to coast tour in Whiteoaks at the Iowa Theatre with matinee and evening show Saturday Jan 7. The play centers on Grandma Adeline Whiteoak and the making of her will. The tour runs 39 weeks through 76 cities with much of the New York cast retained.
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Whiteoaks
Ethel Barrymore
New York
Iowa Theater
Mazo de la Roche
Miss de la Roche
Grandma Adeline Whiteoak
Hudson Theater
Victor Payne-Jennings
United States
Canada
Harry Ellerbe
Stephen Haggard
Finch
Miss Barrymore
Lenore Chippendale
Wyrley Birch
Reynolds Denniston
Robert Shayne
Allan Hale
Peter Fernandez
Audrey Ridgwell
Martha Hodge
Joseph Roeder
Thanks For The Memory Leads New State Romantic Comedy
Bob Hope stars in Paramount’s Thanks For The Memory at the New State with Shirley Ross and Charles Butterworth. Newlyweds cope with tight wages and fraying nerves as friends complicate life and Bob pursues a great American novel. Boo loo accompanies as jungle adventure with Colin Tapely and Jayne Regan.
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Bob Hope
New State Theater
Paramount
Bob
Shirley Ross
Charles Butterworth
Shirley
Roscoe Karns
Otto Kruger
Laura Hope Crews
Hedda Hopper
Patricia
Honey Chile” Wilder
Kidnapped Heads Strand Program Tonight
Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation headlines the Strand, starring Warner Baxter Aileen Whalen and Freddie Bartholomew in a packed show of romance. A second feature, He Couldn't Say No, stars Frank McHugh and Jane Wyman. Also shown Tuesday and Wednesday is another Bohemian feature Viewky Nanynky Kulichovy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Southside
Warner Baxter
Aileen Whalen
Freddie Bartholomew
Frank McHugh
Jane Wyman
The Sisters at the Paramount
Warner Bros film The Sisters stars Bette Davis and Errol Flynn with Anita Louise and Jane Bryan. The plot follows Louise Elliott and her two sisters amid romance and ambition in a small town, with a San Francisco journalist central to the life changing events.
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Paramount Theater
Warner Brothers
Myron Brnnig
Bette Davis
Errol Flynn
Miss Davis
Anita Louise
Jane Bryan
Beulah Bondi
Henry Travers
Ian Hunter
Donald Crisp
Alan Hale
Dick Foran
Patric Knowles
Lee Patrick
Laura Hope Crews
Louise Elliott
San Francisco
Flynn
Edward G Robinson Stars in I Am the Law at Rialto
Edward G Robinson headlines the Rialto bill with I Am the Law where his prosecuting attorney delivers a climactic citywide crackdown. Barbara O Neill plays the female lead with John Beal Wendy Barrie and Otto Kruger in supporting roles.
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Edward G. Robinson
Rialto
Robinson
Barbara O'Neil
John Beal
Wendy Barrie
Otto Kruger
John Wayne Western Features Pals of the Saddle and More
The Three Mesquiteers film Pals of the Saddle screens with John Wayne in a fast western adventure. The serial Wild Bill Hickok returns in chapter eight with a comedy and Cats and the Fiddle also listed.
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John Wayne
Wild Bill Hickok
Submarine Patrol Opens At State Theater Thursday
The New State Theater will show Submarine Patrol starting Thursday. Richard Greene and Nancy Kelly lead an romance set against World War I naval action with a supporting cast including Preston Foster and George Bancroft. Also screens Down on the Farm featuring the Joneses and a new comedy team Louise Fazenda and Eddie Collins.
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Top Lest
Iowa
Anita Louise
Bette Davis
Jane Bryan
Errol Flynn
Paramount
Bob Hope
Hedda Hopper
Charlie Butterworth
New State
New State Theater
Atlantic
Richard Greene
Nancy Kelly
Preston Foster
George Bancroft
Slim Summerville
John Carradine
Joan Valerie
Henry Armetta
Warren Hymer
Frances Farmer Returns to Paramount in Ride a Crooked Mile
Frances Farmer, lauded by New York critics for Golden Boy, returns to the screen in Paramount’s Ride a Crooked Mile opening Tuesday. She plays a Russian émigré amid Cosack and American ideals, with Leif Erikson as her Americanized Russian love interest. their first screen pairing.
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Frances Farmer
New York
Clifford Odets
Miss Farmer
Akim Tamiroff
Paramount
Paramount Theater
Broadway
Leif Erikson
Lfe
Erikson
Exports of Chewing Gum Reach 1937 Total
American chewing gum exports in 1937 stood at 3,182,000 pounds valued at 1,177,000 dollars, more than twice 1933 figures.
Tales of Real Dogs and a Holiday Cat Feud
In a nostalgic voice the piece recalls a bygone era of stage melodramas and compares villains then and now. It follows Scottie the Scottish terrier and his friend Stockings the cocker spaniel, living with Joseph Mullen and Frank Glynn in Milton Massachusetts, as their dogly adventures unfold in 1937.
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Mrs. Mullen
Scottie
No. 7
Brook Road
Stockings
Glynns
Joseph C. Mullen
Brush Hill Road
Milton
Mass
Frank R. Glynn
Mullen
Joe
Little Tough Guys In Society at Iowa Saturday
Mischa Auer Mary Boland and Edward Everett Horton star in Little Tough Guys In Society coming to the Iowa theater Saturday. Helen Parish leads opposite Jackie Sears with Horton as the English butler and Frankie Thomas as the gang leader in a tale of a socialite inviting underprivileged alley kids to her home to revive her son’s zest for life.
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Mischa Auer
Mary Boland
Edward Everett Horton
Hollywood
Iowa
Helen Parish
Jackie Sears
Horton
Frankie Thomas
Long Island
Josette and I Met My Love Again at the Palace
The Palace presents Josette a season comedy with Simone Simon Don Ameche and Robert Young plus Joan Davis and Bert Lahr. Also showing I Met My Love Again with Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda. Starting Wednesday Hunted Men with Mary Carlisle Lloyd Nolan and The County Chairman Will Rogers.
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Josette
Simone Simon
Don Ameche
Robert Young
Palace Theater
Joan Bennett
Henry Fonda
Joan Davis
Bert Lahr
Palace
Mary Carlisle
Lloyd Nolan
Will Rogers
Next Time I Marry ends in Iowa film release
Lucille Ball and James Ellison star in Next Time I Marry a romance about a heiress who must wed an American to keep a fortune. Ig nace Paderewski appears in Moonlight Sonata as the co feature with four major pianist performances.
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Lucille Ball
James Ellison
Iowa Theater
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Charles Farrell
Marie Tempest
Barbara Greene
Eric Portman
Paderewski
Chopin
Liszt
Beethoven
Jurgens to Appear at Danceland with Band Thursday Night
Dick Jurgens, renowned trumpet star, brings his band to Danceland for a 9 to 1 dance night with table reservations limited to 400 and popular pricing. Roger Graham also performs tonight. The passage notes oil production figures across several Texas counties totaling 137 750 887 barrels since 1921.
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Dick Jurgens
Jurgens
Aragon
Chicago
Danceland
Roger Graham
Webb
Duval
Kim Hogg
Zapata Starr, Brooks
Hidalgo
Texas
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Sybil Jason
Strand
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Wedda Mopper
Patricia “Reney Chote Wilder” Rescoe Karas
Clyde E. Elliott
Ales
Ole
Warner Baxter, Aileen Whalen
Prank McHach
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TAI
Columbia
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Wes
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Ameta Loume
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Jane Bryas
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Charlie McCarthy
Hal Kemp
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Mickey Rooney
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Fay Holden
Rober Simon - Young
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